Pedagogical Differentiation: Teacher's Posture and Student Motivation

Today's classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse, welcoming students with a variety of needs, strengths, and challenges. While Singapore is renowned for its academic success, how can teachers ensure, by prioritizing students’ well-being, that everyone reaches their full potential, irrespective of gender, culture, disabilities, or socioeconomic background? Pedagogical differentiation is the key to achieving this goal, as it significantly influences students' school motivation and engagement. In this workshop, we will collectively explore your beliefs about teaching, learning and evaluating and their impact on classroom management and interventions. Through our collaborative exploration, we aim to identify ways in which you can enhance your overall pedagogical flexibility, adapt activities, and modify tasks to support all students in succeeding to the best of their abilities in a growth mindset. This approach aims to boost their motivation for more effective learning and enhance your pleasure of teaching.

Participants will be able to…

• Identify the key components of classroom management.
• Describe their own beliefs about teaching, learning, and evaluating.
• Understand the process of motivation to learn through their own students.
• Memorize the forms, objects, moments, and variations of pedagogical differentiation.
• Evaluate their ability to differentiate to motivate their students.
• Create a repertoire of differentiation strategies to apply in the classroom.
• Plan adjustments in their pedagogical beliefs and classroom management to seamlessly integrate differentiation strategies.

Learning Areas:

• Aesthetics & Creative Expression
• Leadership, Management & Administration
• Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment
• Family and Community Engagement
• Innovation
• Research
• Mother Tongue Languages
• Educational Technology
• Educational Psychology

Target Audience: Teachers and Key Personnel

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